Dislocation-mediated conductivity in oxides: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

MD Armstrong, KW Lan, Y Guo, NH Perry - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Dislocations in ionic solids are topological extended defects that modulate composition,
strain, and charge over multiple length scales. As such, they provide an extra degree of …

A perspective on low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells

Z Gao, LV Mogni, EC Miller, JG Railsback… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
This article provides a perspective on solid oxide fuel cells operating at low temperature,
defined here to be the range from∼ 400° C to 650° C. These low-temperature solid oxide …

Toward design of cation transport in solid-state battery electrolytes: structure-dynamics relationships

YY Lin, AXB Yong, WJ Gustafson, CN Reedy… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cation-conducting, solid-state electrolytes represent a burgeoning focus of battery research,
offering the potential for enhanced safety profiles, durability, and wide electrochemical …

Modifying the barriers for oxygen-vacancy migration in fluorite-structured CeO 2 electrolytes through strain: a computer simulation study

RA De Souza, A Ramadan, S Hörner - Energy & Environmental …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Static lattice simulation techniques were used to examine the effect of strain on oxygen-
vacancy migration in the fluorite-structured oxygen-ion conducting electrolyte CeO2 …

[HTML][HTML] Athermal effect of flash event on high-temperature plastic deformation in Y2O3-stabilized tetragonal ZrO2 polycrystal

H Motomura, D Tamao, K Nambu, H Masuda… - Journal of the European …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study experimentally demonstrates the athermal effect of a flash event under a DC
electric field on high-temperature plastic deformation in a dense, fine-grained 3 mol% Y 2 O …

Densification and properties of bulk nanocrystalline functional ceramics with grain size below 50 nm

F Maglia, IG Tredici, U Anselmi-Tamburini - Journal of the European …, 2013 - Elsevier
The synthesis and functional characterization of dense bulk nanometric oxides are
reviewed, with particular emphasis on the modifications that a grain size in the low …

The brick layer model revisited: introducing the nano‐grain composite model

NJ Kidner, NH Perry, TO Mason… - Journal of the American …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Brick layer models (BLMs), although applicable at the microscale, are inappropriate for
characterizing electroceramics at the nanoscale. A new construct, the nano‐grain composite …

[HTML][HTML] The separation of grain and grain boundary impedance in thin yttria stabilized zirconia (YSZ) layers

M Gerstl, E Navickas, G Friedbacher, F Kubel… - Solid State Ionics, 2011 - Elsevier
An improved electrode geometry is proposed to study thin ion conducting films by
impedance spectroscopy. It is shown that long, thin, and closely spaced electrodes arranged …

Physical insights into the grain size effect on the electrical properties of nanocrystalline La2Zr2O7 pyrochlores

C Kaliyaperumal, SK Marndi, A Sankarakumar… - Ceramics …, 2023 - Elsevier
The role of grain size on the electrical properties of nanocrystalline La 2 Zr 2 O 7 (LZO)
ceramics prepared by chemical co-precipitation is reported. Grain size from 10 to 70 nm was …

The effects of lattice strain, dislocations, and microstructure on the transport properties of YSZ films

GF Harrington, A Cavallaro, DW McComb… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Enhanced conductivity in YSZ films has been of substantial interest over the last decade. In
this paper we examine the effects of substrate lattice mismatch and film thickness on the …